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Well, its a sad end for Monday evenings for me, as the rather good "Flashforward" drama, another import from the States, has ended, quite possibly for good.

For those of you who didn't hear, many shows are being cut from the schedule this year because of rising costs and falling ratings, in preparation for the networks to announce their new line-ups. Its a sad thing, because although I don't know about the other shows, "Flashforward" for me, deserved more attention.

Compared to rather more popular dramas like "Lost" and "Heroes", it was better written.

End of.

Why? It had a story that moved - a story that progressed, and didn't just continuously swim around in circles amidst its own glory, like "Heroes". Sure, at times, the acting was a little dodgy, perhaps "overacted" is the word that some people have used to describe it.

But I didn't, and still don't, care about this [and anyway half the time it simply wasn't true]. This is because I watch a drama for its story, and "Flashforward" had a brilliant one. Every episode, something different happened. The story was different in its very subject matter, too. Full of originality, it seemed [to me], to have so much potential.

It also played around with the themes of time. Never before have I been so absorbed by a TV show about the future. So many get it wrong, and have a simplistic plot where you can go into the future, or the past, do whatever you want, and then leave. Most TV shows use the idea of time merely as a setting.

Not "Flashforward". It played around and explored so many ideas about time - whether you could change your future, whether it was destiny and fate, or something else like free will. For such an original show to be dropped is nothing short of a tragedy, and amongst its fan base at least, it shall be sorely missed.